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INDEX. 





Chambers, R., on ancient sea margins, 33. 



, reply to, by J. D. Dana, 86. 



Channing, W. F, work on Medical Applica- 

 tion of Electricity, noticed, 303. 

 Chauvenet, on determination of longitude by 



the moon, 226. 

 Chemical classification, T. S. Hunt, 89 



Technology, by F. Knapp, noticed, 156, 



308. 

 Chicory coffee, A. Chevalier, 441. 

 I hile, astronomical expedition to, 303. 

 Chlorine, action of, on benzoate of potash, 



108. 

 Chloritoid, analysis of, 123, 272. 

 Chloroform, action on sensitive plant, 115. 

 Chloronieeie acid, 412. 

 Climate, diurnal changes of temperature, 42, 



218. 

 , mean sky covered by clouds, 50. 



, variations in force of winds for 1844, 53. 



•, annual amount of rain, 54. 



| Dead Sea, Lynches explorations of, 317. 



— , analysis of waters of, Marchand, 



Clingmanile, 383. 



Clouds, mean sky covered by, 50, 



Coal formation, extent of flora of, in Britain, 



131. 

 Cobalt, extraction of, at Birmingham, 112. 

 ( offee, chicory, 441. 

 Comet of 1849, second, 428. 

 , Goivjon's, 429. 



Conducting powers of metals, 185. 

 Copper blende, analysis of, 127. 



, phosphates of, from 2s'ischne Tagilsk, 



127. 



•, black oxyd of. Lake Superior, 273. 

 smelting in Japan, 336. 



Coral, brought up with soundings in the An- 

 tarctic, Id. 



Corundellite, a new mica, 3S0. 



Craig's English Dictionary, noticed, 309. 



Cretaceous rocks of South Carolina, 67. 



Crinoidea, fossil, of Tennessee, 419. 



Crustacea of Exploring Expedition, J. D. 

 Dana, 276, 424. 



, homologies in, J. D. Dana, 284. 



genera of Gammaracea, 135, 428. 



Cyclopacea, new, 276. 



Crystals, magnetic relations of optic axes of, 



thicker, 430. 



Curtis, M. A., Mycology of North America, 

 401. 



Curve described by a moveable pulley, A. 

 Seech i, 252. 



D. 



Dactylis caespitosa, 167. 

 Dana, J. D., on terraces, 86. 



, genera of Gammaracea, 135. 



Crustacea of Exploring Expedition, 276, 



444. 



, level of, compared with Mediter- 

 ranean, 331. 



DeCandolle's Prodromus, noticed, 300. 



Despretz, C, electricity not developed by 

 muscular contraction, 406. 



, volatilization of carbon, 413. 



Dew, variations in amount of, 220, 352. 



Dewey, C, caricography, 348. 



, on neo-macropia, 443. 



Diamond in California, 294. 



Diatornacefie of the Antarctic, 178, 179. 



Dictionary, Craig's English, noticed, 309. 



Disternte, a new mineral, 123. 



Dobereiner, J. W., obituary of, 450. 



| Dolomites, altered, of the isle of Bute, 420. 



DutattUJ. T , obituary notice of, 146. 



Dunias, liquid protoxyd of nitrogen, 113. 



E. 



Earth's magnetism, W. A. Norton, 35. 

 Ebelmen, on the decomposition of rocks, 421. 

 Electricity, work on Medical Application of, 



by W. F. Cliu miing, noticed, 3o8. 

 Electro-chronograph, J. Locke, 231. 

 Emervlite, a new mica, 378 

 Emulsme, B. \Y. Bidl,74<2 

 Engravings, mode of copying, 293. 

 EntomoMraca, new genera and species. J. D. 



Dana, 270. 



Epidote, composition of, Gerhardt, 123. 

 Krichson, W, F., obituary of, 450. 

 Kukolite, a new mineral, 126. 

 Euphyllite, a new mica, 381. 

 Euxenite of Tvedenstrand, 126. 

 Expedition, French, under Baudin, ]92etseq. 



— , Crustacea of American Exploring, 276, 



424. 





-, to Dead Sea, Narrative of Lynclts, no- 



• 1 *\ ft *»r 



ticed, 317. 



F. 



Fibrolite, identity of, with kyanite, 388. 

 Fisher, R, S., Book of the World by, noticed, 



156. 

 Food, proper balance of, in nutrition, Fre- 



senius, 435. 



Footmarks, Hitchcock on fossil, 151. 

 Furdos and Gelis, analysis of sulphur acids, 



109, 110. 

 Fossil Trees, Van Diemen's Land, 18. 



footmarks, Hitchcock on, noticed, 151. 



coal plant of Ohio, C. Whittlesey, 375. 



Fossils of .South Carolina, 67, 69, 71. 

 Freezing of leaves of Box, J Gorgv*< 286. 

 Frtsrnius, C. R, on the proper balance of 



food in nutrition, 435. 



Fucus of the Falkland* and Fuegia, 170. 



G. 



! 



— , note on a genus of Gammaracea, 428. 



— , Geology of the U. 8. Exp. Expedition 



by, 454. 

 , atlas of work on Zoophytes bv, noticed, Galvanic Wave, velocity of, S. C. Walker, \i~- 



454. light, C. G. F e on, 1 16. 



Darlington, W?n., memoirs of Bartram and Gammaracea, genera of, 135,428. 



Marshall, by, noiiced, 456. Genera Flora Amer. Bor.-orient. illu>trata, 



Davis, C. H, memoir by, on tidal action, j noticed, 452. 



noticed, 305. Geological Survey of Tennessee, by Dr. 



- , on the prime meridian, 394. | Troost, 419. 



Davis, D., Manual of Magnetism by, noticed, Geology of Exp. Expedition, by J. D. Dana, 



308. e [; noticed, 456. 



